'The softness of a cucumber allows you to be extra expressive on the drums': 30 Musical instruments infused with majorly chaotic energy

Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor

Dec 12, 2022 3:00 PM EST

From kazoos to recorders to those single drums that you can carry in a backpack, most kids grow up playing some kind of instrument. Say an extra thank you to your parents today if you recall playing a xylophone before school (for practice!) or playing "Smoke on the Water" on the bass until everyone in the house needed pairs of earplugs. Not all of us can be musical prodigies, but that didn't stop the folks below from trying! They've created some truly weird instrument fails - keep scrolling to absorb the utter chaos of these musical objects.

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Beary talented but everyone's a critic

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Playing the Juitar is impossible because there are buttons on the strings!

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So close, yet so far

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You've lost your drumming privileges, sir

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Titanic reference?

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In pain looking at this photo

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He had me fooled!

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Tragic and heartbreaking for all

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This is so cursed because it kind of has feet and could chase me probably

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An absolute unit of a tuba is on display here

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What could possibly be the backstory here?

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This Strat has seen better days

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Judgemental pup gives absolute stank eye

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Wrong!

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This piano player was flipped 360 degrees in the air as he played! Good for him!

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Could you play the crabcello?

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Innovator makes bagpipe from glove + 3 straws

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Another innovator, who used a piece of fence to play a tune

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Complex!

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What song is he playing?

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Devastatingly thick guitar! So massive!

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This woman plays the...4? What in the world is this?!

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Ah yes, just "rocking out" with an instrument she totally has picked up before

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Large and in charge

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Genuinely don't know how you'd be able to hold this weird guy

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F for this one

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Mystery sounds only

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This person rigged up a sausage keyboard that actually works when played like a piano! Gross and very exceptional at the same time!

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Don't snap your fingers to the beat, you've been warned

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Meal of champs

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